Reuters
09 December, 2024, 12:10 am
Last modified: 09 December, 2024, 12:12 am
The fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad underscores Russia’s weakness and incapacity to battle on two fronts, Ukraine’s international ministry stated on Sunday.
Russia had bolstered Assad’s govt by staging air strikes in opposition to opposition targets starting up in 2015 and had operated out of two bases on Syrian territory.
But Moscow’s 33-month-standard invasion of Ukraine has sapped great military resources “Events in Syria trace the weakness of Putin’s regime, which is incapable of combating on two fronts and abandons its closest allies for the sake of persisted aggression in opposition to Ukraine,” the international ministry stated in an announcement.
Russia stated earlier that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had left set of business and departed his nation after giving orders for a aloof transfer of energy, however didn’t tell the set he became as soon as now or whether the Russian military deliberate to prevent in Syria.
The HUR intelligence directorate, posting on the Telegram messaging app, stated Russian forces in Syria “had withdrawn its warships from the naval uncomfortable in Tartous which Assad had allowed Moscow to exercise as payment for his safety”.
A frigate, the Admiral Grigorovich, as properly as a cargo ship, the Engineer Trubin, accept as true with been pulled out of Tartous on Sunday, it stated and Russian plane accept as true with been appealing “the remnants of their weapons and military tools” from Khmemim air uncomfortable.
HUR equipped no evidence of its affirmations and Reuters became as soon as now not straight in a position to substantiate the plot back.
Russian conflict bloggers warned on the weekend that the 2 bases and Moscow’s very presence within the Heart East accept as true with been below threat from the insurgents.
